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Each week, the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week's smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Tencent has returned for a series B round raised by the semiconductor technology developer, having also participated in a $43.4m funding round last year.

UC Berkeley-aligned generalised robotics software developer Covariant previously collected funding from Samsung Q Fund while it still operated in stealth mode.

GV has returned for an $87m series D round for Cockroach Labs, having already participated in all of the database technology developer’s previous rounds.

Two years after Telstra Ventures led a $43m series D round for Cumulus Networks, Nvidia has agreed to purchase the data centre networking technology provider.

Intel Capital-backed GigaSpaces increased its funding total to $60m with a round set to drive growth of its transactional data orchestration platform.

Kingsoft’s cloud services subsidiary has set its price range for an initial public offering in the US and will raise as much as $450m in proceeds if it floats at the higher end.

TCL Capital was among the investors in a $119m funding round for ASR Microelectronics, which also attracted Zhangjiang and increased its overall funding to $419m.

Geek Pictures was among the backers that invested in the document-reading software provider’s $12.1m equity and debt round that came 15 months after a $15m series B round.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.